Ask Tom Perkins, who thinks people should have a number of votes equal to the number of dollars in taxes they pay.
It was an off-the-cuff remark intended to be provocative, but it reveals a very serious and widespread and increasingly shameless desire of the impudent, insolent, arrogant rich of America for constitutional reforms aimed at cutting the power of the non-rich in order to kill progressivism once and for all.
Recall the many calls for repeal of the 17th Amendment and the revival of Lochner law, for example.
Way things are going, it might not be so long before changes begin that take things in that direction.
Imagine the effect on turnout of a one dollar poll tax, to be paid at the polling place in cash, no dollar no ballot.
When conservatives let their fangs show in this way, they make Lenin's mistrust of and contempt for bourgeois democracy credible.
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